How to do Effective Counselling
with Joe Griffin
SEMINAR OUTLINE:
If your work involves advising, treating or counselling disturbed or distressed people, this seminar could be the most important you ever attend. Despite their best intentions, many practitioners are not as effective as they could be. This day explodes many of the myths which still abound in the field of psychotherapy and counselling and gives you new insights from skills-based research and brain science which will make your work not only more reliably effective but also more satisfying.
Research shows that a solution-focused, brief therapy approach to counselling is more cost-effective than drugs or long-term psychotherapy for treating a whole range of distress, including: anxiety, PTSD, depression, panic attacks, sexual problems, compulsive behaviour (OCD), eating disorders, addictions, as well as helping survivors of abusive relationships or traumatic events.
Joe Griffin explains why these easy-to-learn skills are so effective – even with apparently 'stuck' clients.
What you gain from the day
- Information (that no one else has given you) to make you more effective in your work – the day after attending this seminar!
- You can save yourself years of wasted effort by knowing about the major myths that continue to make much counselling ineffective
- The core counselling skills of brief therapy that really make a difference fast – even with ‘stuck’ clients
- Knowledge of how to avoid harming people in counselling (as many people unwittingly do)
- A new understanding of the revolutionary human givens approach to counselling and psychotherapy and how it can make you more effective if you work in these fields.
Who should attend
- Psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, occupational therapists, doctors, nurses, health visitors, physiotherapists, pastoral workers, social workers, support workers, youth workers, trainee counsellors, etc.
- Planners with responsibility for managing care resources. Advisors and managers responsible for staff welfare.
- Anyone wanting to understand more about effective strategies for alleviating emotional disturbance (professionally or privately).
SEMINAR PROGRAMME:
The Seminar Day:
Registration: 8.30am to 9.30am (Tea or coffee served until 9.25am)
9.30am What is counselling? When does it work? And when does it not?
The vital differences between counselling and pseudo-counselling. Why certain types of counselling tend to make some clients and patients worse. The five myths about traditional counselling that disillusion the public about it and hold back progress in the field. Case histories and scientific research that support the above. How to make counselling services more effective – the whole story.
11.00am — Tea/coffee and discussion
11.30am Counselling from the human givens
Exploring the human givens approach to effective counselling which makes interventions easier and more reliably effective. Identifying the key human needs and the resources nature gives us to satisfy them. Topics include: anxiety, depression, anger, abuse, grief. FILM of brief therapy session for depression. Vivid case histories and stories that illustrate the skills covered. Why counselling needs to be brief in most cases. The essential capacities you need in order to help someone in distress.
1.00pm — Lunch break
2.00pm Mind/body connections: internal processes
How the brain and body work together. Understanding unconscious processes. Demonstration of guided imagery and how to use it in treating grief, anxiety and depression. FILM of counselling a patient with an anxiety disorder.
3.00pm — Tea/coffee and discussion
3.30pm The seven core skills of brief counselling
There are certain brief counselling skills that all the caring professions need to know about. They play an essential part in helping people move on in their lives and can easily be learned by nurses, doctors, social workers, occupational therapists, general practitioners, counsellors, support workers and other members of the caring professions. The seven core skills of effective counselling. Why these skills can be mastered quickly by people who have the aptitude.
4.30pm — Day ends |
